Mark E. Leib’s fiction and essays have appeared in the Adelaide Literary Magazine, Two Bridges Review, JewishFiction.net, Commentary, the Boston Review, Harvard Magazine, American Theatre, and Stage Directions Magazine. His plays and adaptations have been produced in New York, Chicago, Cambridge, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Edinburgh, and Singapore.
About Terry by Terry, Newsweek said, "Leib is a real comer, a writer of slicing wit and intellectual velocity.... This is a very funny play about human agony and...the overwhelming self-consciousness that has crippled contemporary man and turned him into a creature who knows everything and creates nothing."
Florida critic Dorothy Smiljanich called Leib’s play American Duet “a smart, funny intelligent work and some of the writing is downright brilliant.” Leib’s theatre criticism for the Tampa Bay area alternative newspaper Creative Loafing won seven awards for excellence from the Society of Professional Journalists between 1998-2018, including three first-place statewide Sunshine State Awards. Leib was the first playwriting lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University in 1989-90, and now teaches fiction, playwriting, and screenwriting at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He’s a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he won the CBS Foundation Prize in Playwriting, and of Harvard College, where he was president and poetry editor of the literary magazine The Harvard Advocate. Leib teaches fiction, playwriting, and screenwriting at the University of South Florida.